appui
English
Alternative forms
- appuy
Etymology
French appui, from Latin ad + podium (“foothold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈpwiː/
Noun
appui (plural appuis or appuies)
- (obsolete) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
- (horse-riding, obsolete) The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle.
- Clipping of point d'appui.
Related terms
- point d'appui
Verb
appui (third-person singular simple present appuis, present participle appuiing, simple past and past participle appuied)
- (transitive, military) To support, e.g. by posting troops.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for appui in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pɥi/
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Noun
appui m (plural appuis)
- support
Derived terms
- à l'appui
- appui de fenêtre
Related terms
- appuyer
Further reading
- “appui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.